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These past two days have been filled with planning, messages, and errands. I’ve mainly been contacting the various community leaders and orgs I’ll be visiting next week and reading up on current proposals and articles written by PR scholars. Yesterday was a day filled with calls, conversations, and messages and more planning. I decided to… Continue reading

On January 10th, I attended a community meeting hosted by Frente Ciudadano por la Auditoría de la Deuda, a group of organized citizens calling for the audit of Puerto Rico’s debt. I became aware of this meeting through a flyer on Instagram that my friend Wadner J. Molina sent to me. The meeting was hosted… Continue reading

I’m writing this while I’m currently on the plane to Aguadilla, PR. While here, I’ve been reading Aftershocks of Disaster. Reading through it coupled with me reflecting upon the nature of this trip has led me to deciding to write this entry.  Throughout the entirety of last week, I was attempting to write down a recount… Continue reading

I’m writing this as I’m getting ready to leave for the airport. I keep thinking about what I’ll be writing about this week, the people I’ve interacted with so far, and what’s going to come out of this project. Though I have a focus for this blog, I’m also open to this taking a completely… Continue reading

Note: Please forgive the later entry, today had some unforeseen setbacks. For today’s entry, I won’t be writing about Puerto Rico’s current political and social climate or conditions in the past. Today I’d like to talk about the poet Julia de Burgos; probably Puerto Rico’s most famous poet.  For today’s entry, I’ll be taking from Song… Continue reading

A week from today, I’ll be boarding a plane to Puerto Rico to observe and document what I see and the people I meet, to attempt to display a clearer picture of what Puerto Rico and its people are doing and how they’re responding to the effects of disaster aftermaths. I’m reflecting upon what it means to recover from a… Continue reading